Quotes About Insight

I have to think my success in the VC business was due in no small part to seeing Larry Ellison in action back in the day.

I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. I'm responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Just being from where I'm from, a little small town, I feel like I'm a good judge of character.

I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.

We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger.

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

From time to time, there are moments when I feel that even the smallest experiences from the past can be applied to something greater in the future.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

Look, the American people are smart.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Everybody can be smart.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

Boys, for the most part, are not very observant - or all that together smart, for that matter.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

I hate to be smart.